About Bowie State University

Bowie State University is a public historically black university in Prince George’s County, Maryland, north of Bowie. It is allocation of the University System of Maryland. Founded in 1865, Bowie State is Maryland’s oldest historically black college circles and one of the ten oldest in the country. Bowie State is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

Bowie (/ˈbuːi/) is a city in Prince George’s County, Maryland, United States. The population was 54,727 at the 2010 U.S. Census. Bowie has grown from a small railroad End to the largest municipality in Prince George’s County, and the fifth most populous city and third largest city by Place in the U.S. state of Maryland. In 2014, CNN Money ranked Bowie 28th in its Best Places to Live (in the United States) list.